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BARLOW LYDE & GILBERT
Giant - will size make Clydes and Barlows the future of insurance law?
The beginning of the end of 170 years of legal history happened on 15 March 2011, the day Barlow Lyde & Gilbert’s highly-rated aviation team handed in its notice to move to Holman Fenwick Willan. Until that point, Barlows had looked as if it was ...
20 Oct 2011 | 00:00 | 
Aviation team loss leaves Barlows up in the air
It's all very well having a strategy, but at a certain point a law firm has also got to be able to hold on to good partners. On that basis, news last week that Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's eight-partner aviation team is quitting to join Holman Fenwick Will...
31 Mar 2011 | 00:59 |
No more half measures: can Barlows' management prove the doubters wrong?
"We're focusing on stability," says Barlow Lyde & Gilbert senior partner Simon Konsta. And who could query those sentiments? Despite having built a reputation as one of the City's top insurance and litigation firms, Barlows has had an unhappy recen...
17 Feb 2011 | 00:37 |
Professional negligence and indemnity: Surrender the lost cause
Solicitors wishing to terminate their retainer with clients intent on pursuing a hopeless case will draw comfort from a recent key decision by the Court of Appeal. It saw the Court support the solicitors' decision to terminate their retainer with thei...
05 Aug 2010 | 10:58 |
DLA Piper and Barlows drafted to help with £200m 'mini Madoff' asset trail
DLA Piper has secured a lead role acting on behalf of the creditors of bankrupt former Leyton Orient FC vice-chairman Nicholas Levene. The firm's restructuring and insolvency team was instructed earlier this month (14 October) by Deloitte bankruptc...
28 Oct 2009 | 11:05 |
Professional negligence: The risks of globalisation
Over the last 20 years, the process of integrating economic activity across international borders, or 'globalisation', has achieved a heightened significance in the business strategies of companies and professional service firms. Globalisation has com...
16 Sep 2009 | 11:33 |
Ethics: Read the fine print
In Tamlura v CMS Cameron McKenna, the High Court considered whether a solicitors firm is obligated to tell a client if, during a transaction, the other side makes a mistake which operates to the client’s advantage. In this article, we consider the c...
02 Jul 2009 | 10:06 |
Professional negligence: Courage under fire
Recent media stories suggest that the current recession will trigger a huge increase in disputes, including claims against lawyers. And the legal profession is itself concerned - a recent risk management survey sponsored by Marsh of the UK's top 100 l...
02 Apr 2009 | 03:30 |
Mediation: A piece of the action
Since pre-action protocols were introduced, parties have incurred significant costs prior to proceedings being issued as they attempt to clarify the key issues in dispute with a view to resolving matters without the need for litigation. While the cour...
08 May 2008 | 01:02 |
Top 50 trio defy downturn with promotions rise
A clutch of top 50 firms including Halliwells, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Watson Farley & Williams have announced their new partner promotions this week. The trio are the only three out of eight firms announcing over the last week to report an increase...
01 May 2008 | 06:49 |
Professional Negligence: Double trouble
During 2003 and 2004, the law firm Fox Hayes approved a number of financial promotion letters from overseas companies targeted at UK-based private investors. The letters invited investors to apply for free research reports (also approved by Fox Hayes)...
20 Mar 2008 | 02:01 |
Fraud and white-collar crime: Tough tackle
While footballers continue to be caught with their pants down off the pitch, it is good to report that in the Queen's Bench and Chancery divisions, certain football clubs' fortunes are up. In two recent cases, the court upheld claims of fraud brought ...
07 Feb 2008 | 02:09 |
Insurance & Professional Indemnity: Beware the borrowers
At the time of the demise of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) in 1999, one of the major causes of the losses suffered was considered to be the very large number of claims arising from mortgage fraud in the early 1990s. The SIF shortfall led to soli...
02 Aug 2007 | 02:26 |
Disclosure: Your files please
Non-party disclosure requests are rarely welcome. All too often a broad request for documents comes in, said to be relevant to litigation of which you might be completely unaware. The result? Costs in dealing with the request and, further, the risk th...
10 May 2007 | 01:03 |
Fill in the gaps
Given the care and attention lavished by lawyers and clients on preparation for trial, it is surprising how often settlements end up cobbled together in haste, leaving the spectre of satellite litigation over the meaning of the settlement agreement. W...
22 Mar 2007 | 01:02 |
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